19th May 2019
House renovation day 21
The moving of the contents of one house to another continued. With the help of Cameron, Kelli’s son, we moved the couch and a love seat. I have no idea why they call it a love seat because it’s two people squeezed into one chair seated side by side, just like economy on America Airlines.
Gradually it was coming together, I now have somewhere to sit to drink my coffee.
I had to rush to get the skirting fixed in the second bedroom, because Greer didn’t want to spend another night alone in the old place, which was odd as she is alway holed up in her room even if we were there. Anyway I had to find some heavy items to hold the skirting to the wall whilst the adhesive cures. In the beginning I used boxes of flooring, then as they were used up I graduated to boxes of floor tiles, now I had to raid the tool cupboard. So Greer has to spend the night with the planer wedged up against one piece of skirting, and a skill-saw on another.
As well as doing things in the house I was working on a piece of furniture for a sale on Tuesday. Two drawer boxes were covered in thick epoxy resin, that someone had used to stick the floor panel to the sides. It looked like it was poured in and just left to cure.
I spent many hours chipping away this hard vile material.
All this and manual labour as well, but this was the official end of the restoration, although there is still a long list of snagging to do.
Another Lifetime to go 